Job 31:9 Cross References - Darby

⁹ If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour`s door,

⁵ And the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Persuade him, and see in what his great strength is, and with what we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to overpower him; and we will each give thee eleven hundred silver-pieces.

⁴ And it came to pass when Solomon was old, [that] his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his father.

²⁶ Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among the many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; but even him did foreign wives cause to sin.

¹⁵ And the eye of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and he putteth a covering on [his] face. ¹⁶ In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light:

¹⁶ To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words; ¹⁷ who forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God; ¹⁸ -- for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead; ¹⁹ none that go unto her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:

³ For the lips of the strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil; ⁴ but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. ⁵ Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on Sheol. ⁶ Lest she should ponder the path of life, her ways wander, she knoweth not [whither]. ⁷ And now, children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the words of my mouth. ⁸ Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: ⁹ lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel; ¹⁰ lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and the fruits of thy toil [come] into the house of a stranger; ¹¹ and thou mourn in thine end, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed; ¹² and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof! ¹³ and I have not hearkened unto the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to those that instructed me; ¹⁴ I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. ¹⁵ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. ¹⁶ Thy fountains shall be poured forth, as water-brooks in the broadways. ¹⁷ Let them be only thine own, and not strangers` with thee. ¹⁸ Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth. ¹⁹ As a lovely hind and a graceful roe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times: be thou ravished continually with her love. ²⁰ And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? ²¹ For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and he pondereth all his paths. ²² His own iniquities shall take the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin. ²³ He shall die for want of discipline; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

²⁵ Lust not after her beauty in thy heart, neither let her take thee with her eyelids;

²¹ With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him.

¹⁴ The mouth of strange women is a deep ditch: he with whom Jehovah is displeased shall fall therein.

²⁶ and I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is nets and snares, [and] whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be caught by her.

⁸ [As] well fed horses, they roam about, every one neigheth after his neighbour`s wife.

⁴ They all practise adultery, as an oven heated by the baker: he ceaseth from stirring [the fire] after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.